Struggle in the Steam Age

The improvised banner, made from the head and robes of the flame axe, delivered the death blow to the desperate rogues.

One of the important reasons why they were able to charge forward despite all kinds of threats was that they believed that their Flame Ax boss belt could lead the elite to attack from behind the defenders, turning things in a direction that was beneficial to them.

But now, their last hope has been shattered. The head and long-distance running of the flame ax hanging on the top of a spear have already shown one thing, that is, the elite squad they had high hopes for before has been exhausted.

After Safir erected the first flag, the servants in the camp who had no combat effectiveness immediately set up several other temporary flags made with the clothes and heads of the bandit commandos that had just been killed.

The appearance of these banners representing blood and death further damaged the morale of the bandit group.

Therefore, when Lawrence and the others rushed out of the position to launch a counterattack, the attack organized by the bandit group was completely over.

So when Lawrence led his men to charge towards the pile of ruins blocking the valley entrance, those people either dropped their weapons and lay on the side of the road in fright, or they were killed by Lawrence and the others from behind.

"Come back, all come back—" Finally, the yellow-clothed swordsman waved his weapon in vain, trying to gather the scattered thieves back together and launch another attack according to his own will.

But no one listens to him here, every thief is crazy to escape a way out.

Even if he swung the long sword in his hand and cut down a few thieves who were very close to him when they were running away, the only effect was to let others bypass him when they were running away.

When Lawrence passed the obstacle formed by the pile of ruins, the important leader of the bandit group still wanted to resist.

As a result, in just one round, under the joint attack of Lauren and the others, they rushed directly to the street, and then they were beheaded like those guys who were killed before, and their coats were stripped off and hung on the pole.

In this day and age, most people, including Lawrence, actually have some kind of heartfelt rejection of this seemingly bloody and disgusting method.

At the same time, the traditional way of recording merit by the head is also habitually replaced by more civilized methods, and only in some areas on the fringes of civilization still sporadically retain this kind of habit.

There is only one reason why Lawrence is taking this method now, and that is that they are now chasing the enemy's large force with a small number of people.

In this case, if you can't do everything possible to completely destroy the morale of the opponent, once the opponent reacts and counterattacks, it will inevitably bring some additional losses.

Although Lawrence's support army is now dominated by Transcendents, even if they encounter those who turn back and fight back, they can protect themselves without losing anything.

But compared to the current kind of carefree pursuit, Lawrence felt that they didn't need to cause all kinds of troubles for themselves because of hypocrisy.

Half an hour later, the pursuit was completely over, and only less than 20 thieves fled the battlefield along the mountain road.

However, considering that when they fled, in order to reduce weight, they not only discarded all the weapons and most of the supplies on their bodies, but also fled to different directions. So their threat can also be said to have been completely lifted.

Most of the remaining thieves were killed by Lawrence and the others during the battle, but there were still seventy or eighty guys who chose to surrender when they saw the situation was not good. They survived and became prisoners.

And through the interrogation of these surrenderers, Lawrence and the others finally figured out what was going on with the attack.

The whole thing starts with their leader, Flame Axe. This guy was just an ordinary adventurer at first, but he became a wanted criminal after killing his companion for treasure during an adventure.

It may be the reason why this person is more suitable to be an outlaw fanatic, so after he became a wanted criminal, he became more famous than when he was an adventurer. And the bandit name Flame Axe also spread throughout the Great Lakes region of the Federation.

So much so that when Lawrence and the others interrogated the captives, they found that the bandits, like themselves, did not know what his real name was.

And the reason why this notorious gangster planned this kidnapping case that would directly shock the entire New World if he succeeds is also very simple, that is, his extraordinary level has reached the peak of professional level.

According to the rough division method in ancient times, this is equivalent to leaping from bronze to silver, which is a qualitative transformation for a superhuman.

For a guy like Flame Ax, who starts with an ax and relies on looting for equipment. It is far more difficult to complete this leap than others, because now he cannot obtain various materials and knowledge to help him break through through normal channels.

Of course, this doesn't mean he can't upgrade his extraordinary power. After all, there are not only formal channels in this world that can obtain all of this, or to use a common saying, all roads lead to Rome.

But for Flame Axe, it is true that all roads lead to Rome, but the money to buy the road through informal channels is really too expensive.

In addition, as a thief, he earns a lot and usually spends a lot, so he naturally doesn't have enough wealth to get everything he wants from other channels.

At the beginning, Flame Ax hoped to get everything he wanted by finding relics or looting. Because for a thief, this should be regarded as a very suitable method.

But later Flame Ax discovered that this method can only be used by the protagonist in knight novels, because extraordinary people of different professions need different things, so the spoils obtained from exploring the ruins may not be what they need .

To give the simplest example, the ruins inside the valley that is used as a trap are actually the first to be discovered and explored by the flame hand before, but the ruins were discovered only after catching up with 1/3 members of the bandit group and a few important assistants It can be said that there is nothing in it, only a paladin inheritance of the Dawn Church who can practice to the silver level.

For those churches of good gods, this kind of middle and low-level inheritance of paladins is often spread outside.

Because the core of the paladin's extraordinary power is the belief in the gods, they consciously place this inheritance in various regions to recruit some potential new believers for their gods.

But the problem is that this kind of inheritance is useless to Flame Axe and the gangsters under his command. After all, the Lord of Dawn is a god of the orderly and good camp. Naturally, it is impossible for these evil gangsters with bloody hands to become the holy knight of this god. .

For Flame Axe, not to mention that the things they found in this adventure did not meet their requirements at all, the overall situation is almost the same as if they didn't find them. The loss of personnel and materials alone gave him a headache.

To make matters worse, although the believers of the Lord of Dawn do not require every clergyman to be as simple as possible like the Church of the Passion, they usually work hard as if everyone is an ascetic.

But compared to the group of Goddess of Wealth's clerics who look like gold, His paladins can also be said to be extremely hard and simple.

This also led to the fact that there was not much wealth in the ruins left by the paladin, so Flame Ax had to pay out of his own pocket to distribute money to those subordinates to unite the hearts of the people.

Realizing that none of these paths worked, Flameaxe found that there was only one path left for him, and that was to acquire a great deal of wealth through what he had previously considered too risky a way.

So he took a part of his already limited wealth and set up a game in this ruins. I hope to get a lot of money by attracting those rich people into the trap and then kidnapping and extorting.

Of course, Flame Ax also knew that after doing this, he would probably become a public enemy soon, so he planned to leave this familiar Great Lakes area after finishing this vote, and then went to the chaotic Sea of ​​Stars to wash his hands and go ashore.